Around noon I got in the car and started the drive down to Cambridge. Some  BETA work freindsand I are goign to an NAE/MIT symposium on AI together.. I took advantage of that to go down  little early to attend my freind and collaborator Dimple’s PhD defense.  ,,   and to meet wiht soem other friends at MIT.. 

I visited the student center and. saw the first place I ever donated blood (and fainted when I jumped up to help an ‘old’ guy ( who was probebly 50 🙂 

I wandered over to the place where my beloved bexeley dorm was …. it’s now a parl  I try tp put a samstone there when ver im on campus 

I love being back on campus.. I made my way to Bldg 34 for Dimples defence. SHe’s a student of my ffirend Anatha’s she’s done soem nice work in the intersection of AI and analog circuit design. MIT IBM fundeded her work..a dn we’ve written a couple of papers togheer. (he did al the work 🙂 

she did a really nice shout out to all her sponsoer, and collaboerators including Matriey .. another collaborator of ours , her collegues, her family and her husband. .. who just defended a couple of weeks ago on the west coast !

then that anxious 5 minustes while the committee debats.. 

then like that ..  we met dr ,.Kochar

After that I met up with my collaborater Seyschelle.. whos a prof in Biochemistry.. and actualy colaborates with Prof Martin iler, Gabe’s PI in Germany 

and her beutiful dog Boltzmann !

Then I met with my good freind Chris.. he and I built the Satori supercomputer togeher.. we managed to make Satori the worlds 4th (of 500 !)  most energy efficient supercomputer in the 2019 Green 500 !

From there, I zoomed back to the student center to meet up with my friend Anika… shes my close freinds Ruchir and Rashi’s youngest daughter. I’m having dinner with their oldest daughter Eesha tonight along with my friends, Akash and Erica… But Annika can’t make it cause she’s just about to graduate… So I met her and we took a walk… I walked her over to where my old dorm Bexley was, and I showed her where my room would’ve been, and I showed her the samstone i’d just placed there. It was really great catching up with her. I’ve known her since she was a little girl… Now she’s just this incredibly powerful technical woman.… I can tell she’s so excited to graduate.

Then I ran completely back across campus to meet up with my friend David… He’s a pro professor in Aeronautics and also a great history of science guy… We’ve got to be really good friends. The place we were gonna meet was closed so we went next-door to another small bar. He’s working on a really cool history of electricity book… And I hope to help him in someway. He’s just a fascinating guy.

From there, I caught an Uber to Akash and Erica’s house in Cambridge. They had some delicious takeout Italian food and we just sat around and talked and played with their dog Ledoux and later on our friend Isha, Ruchir and Rashi’s  daughter and Anika’s sister

It was so great hanging out… And only that but Akash got me started on some software that he’s written which I really like… It’s called the agent factory and it is really amazing to use… It’s a harness around Claude. I’ll write more about it later.

I was getting late, so Isha and I grabbed an Uber. We droppedIsha near MIT and I headed of to my hotel

Super nice to be back in Cambridge  !

nite all, nite sam
-me

Today was a bg day for the home front. Our beloved trampoline is finding a. new home with  our friend Chelsea and her family.. this thing has been used by countless kids and adults.. it was often where I took calls during covid (falling asleep soemtimes in the middle) . we’ll miss it.. but it’ll sire be easier to mow now.   You can even see the tramp from space 

I had a great surprise today. .my old freind Igor called me out of the blue. Igor and I were good freinds back at IBM … he left and eventually ended up beign the VP in charge of Hardware development  at Groq. .. which was just sold (acutally licensed) to Nvidia.. He came in to work and I got to show him around a little.. nd got to intorduce him to soem of my freinds. He’s one of the best HW engineers i’ve evenr met.. I knew he’d love BETA !

Speakign of Hardware.. I had to do some hardware and softare rework on the remote controlled candy dispenser I made for D2.. .. turns out that the MQTT broker I was using went down.. 

THis thig is currently hooked up to Jira.. so that when we close an issue, it dispences M&M’s.. i’m going to link it to gitlab now..

I took these pics in order to post it in pour #show-and-tell slack channel at work. People here are so creative and crafty..  people are posting amazing projects all the tim e 

thats it for today.. 

nite all. nite sam
-me

WOke early at Ruchir and Rashis’.. Found this picture someone had painted  of Ruchir.. totally captures the his warm and joyful spirit !

drive back up to VT was fun.. listening to a good audio book. ‘The song of the Cell’ by Sidartha Mukherjee. 

Lots of fun and interesting  technical   work goign on at BETA for me now.. but luckily.. tehre’s still soem time for pure fun. Here i’m helping my freinds Ryan and Eliout with their idea for a lite bright for BETA

Tonight was a great youga class.. really feeling like sprng finally. 

nice to be home

nite all. nite sam
-me

Woke today at Ruchir and Rashis.. we had a delicious breakfast of idli and kitcheree.. Rashi reminds me so much of Diane..  Ruchir and I are both such lucky guys 

Ruxchir and Rashi have a beautiful home.. and its full of love . 

we headed to YKY.. always makes me feel good driving up to thia place..  So many smart people in such an interesting space 

Ran into some old freinds .. Bhavna and I worked together on soem of the most fun projects I ever did 

I always loved the mix here.. one door might hide a pristinge offfice with books and awards, the next would be a mad scientist’s desk, the next maybe a laboratory 

great day of meetings.. saw so many old freinds . the topic was fascinating.. too.. bringing new technology to bear on ‘old’ problems.. lots of creative energy in the room !

We left as the sun had just set.. such a. beutiful areas

then back for one more night at Ruchir and Rashis.. my plan is to leave at 6AM tomorrow to get back to work

great day. – I still feel like part of ibm 

nite all, nite sam
-me